the Ups and Downs of Wordpress

When I was first starting out years and years ago in the blogging sphere--I'm talking circa 2009 ladies and gentlemen-- there weren't a lot of options when it came to free or low cost blogging based platforms.

You had blogspot, blogger and then if you wanted to be "fancy" you had wordpress.

I was a Wordpress person.

Mainly because I had initially intended to not just have a blog but also to do consultations and readings which I did end up doing--just not through Wordpress.

That being said there are many things I've noticed through the years of bouncing back and forth between Wordpress and other website hosting platforms and I thought that I would go through some of the things that I personally used to like (and probably still do if they've maintained them) and...didn't really care for.

It's Easy To Start Writing

In all honesty I've always found wordpress to be super easy to set up, make look pretty and then get straight into the writing of things. For blogging purposes I found that the writing experience and interface was always nice to work with, easy to manage, easy to navigate and wasn't difficult to actually type up what you wanted to say and get it out there.

However...

If you want to expand beyond a "simple blog" then things can seem overwhelming and complicated.

Look....

I'm not the most tech savvy person in the world lets be real here. I get very easily overwhelmed if something doesn't work the way I perceive it should and I find it stressful when the technology just isn't doing the technology thing properly for me.

This can be more stressful when you add in that the amount of plug ins that Wordpress has is enormous. I know to some that might be amazing but when you are starting out that can seem like way too much.

This then brings me to...

If you want any level of customisation you need to be familiar with some sort of coding.

In today's day this might be common practice but growing up technology wasn't at my fingertips the way it is today and so while my younger brother who is an IT whizz thinks coding is no problem I personally find it--daunting and boring.

And something that I can't be bothered to actually invest time and money in to learn.

This may be a more “oldie” problem but it's one that if you're just starting on the scene you might want to consider it none the less.

Separate to all of that wordpress does a lot of other things really well.

They organise their backend nicely.

They make it easy and affordable to start up a business from scratch.

They have loads of options for plug ins to all sorts of additional apps and add ons that may or may not be useful to you.

Their customer service used to be on point (not sure recently if that is still the case as I haven't used them for the better part of a decade).

They have good template designs both free and paid that are easily customisable and unique.

If all those things outweigh the slight cons that you might run across.

Then Wordpress might be right for you.